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White meat
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The breast portion of poultry. countable, uncountable
- 2 meat carved from the breast of a fowl wordnet
- 3 Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and in some uses, even pork. countable, uncountable
- 4 Dairy produce (occasionally including eggs). countable, historical, uncountable
"[W]hite meates, as milk, butter ⁊ chéeſe, which were woont to be accoũted of as one of the chiefe ſtayes thorowout the Iſland, are now reputed as foode appertinent only to the inferiour ſoꝛt, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English whyte mete, wyttemet, equivalent to white + meat.
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